Server Engineer Lead

About the role

This is a direct hire position with a pay rate of $110K - $130K, located in Menasha, WI, with a hybrid work mode. The schedule is Monday-Friday 8AM-4PM with on-call hours, and requires 10-15% travel to local data centers.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, implementation, lifecycle management, and operational support of the company's large-scale enterprise compute environment, including server platforms and virtualization platforms based on VMware and other hypervisors.
• Manage server hardware standards, platform design, firmware strategy, host lifecycle management, and infrastructure refresh planning across the enterprise.
• Oversee the health, performance, availability, and capacity of virtualization environments, including hypervisor hosts, management platforms, clusters, distributed resource scheduling, and high availability configurations.
• Design and maintain resilient compute and virtualization solutions that support mission-critical enterprise workloads with a strong emphasis on uptime, recoverability, and operational consistency.
• Partner with storage, networking, backup, security, and application teams to ensure end-to-end performance and reliability of hosted workloads.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex server hardware and virtualization incidents, leading root-cause analysis and restoration efforts for critical platform issues.
• Architect and maintain automated workflows using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance activities.
• Maintain and enhance platform visibility through enterprise monitoring, alerting, and performance analytics tools, including VMware Aria Operations, Grafana, and related ecosystem tooling, to support rapid issue detection and response.

Requirements

• Five or more years of experience in the field or in a related area.
• Must be a US citizen due to ITAR requirements.
• Strong communication, time management, problem solving, teamwork, leadership, mentoring, project management, business acumen, requirements gathering, and planning skills.

Preferred Skills

• Minimum 7 years administering and architecting enterprise server infrastructure and virtualization environments at scale.
• Technical Expertise: Deep understanding of enterprise server hardware, VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, VMware Aria Operations, and comparable virtualization platforms.
• Automation: Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, and scripting languages such as PowerShell or Python for infrastructure automation and operational efficiency.
• Container Familiarity: Familiarity with container management platforms such as OpenShift, Kubernetes, or similar enterprise container ecosystems.